#1
Posted: 5/5/06 at 7:05pm
I was thinking of buying a recording of this musical, which one do you guys reccommend?
Which version of Jekyll & Hyde?
#2
Posted: 5/5/06 at 7:40pm
The one I'm most familiar with is the Broadway cast. But the one with Carolee Carmello is good as well, at least what I can remember. But on the concept album, I was a little bored with the orchestrations.
#3
Posted: 5/5/06 at 7:45pm
The Studio Recording, all the way.
Anthony Warlow + Linda Eder = Eargasm from here to Minsk.
Anthony Warlow + Linda Eder = Eargasm from here to Minsk.
#4
Posted: 5/5/06 at 7:50pm
oops, I mistakened the concept album for the complete work w/ Anthony Warlow...I meant the COMPLETE WORK!!!
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
Updated On: 5/6/06 at 07:50 PM
#5
Posted: 5/5/06 at 7:57pm
Out of the 3 currently released in the U.S. - I'd go with the 2-disc studio recording. Anthony Warlow, Carolee Carmello and the rest of the cast are great. And you get to hear a lot of things that didn't make it to NYC. The concept is fine, if you can get a cheap copy. The OBC got on my nerves a bit.
But I did hear the german recording, I think, and that was wonderful. And there is soon to be another recording released with Robert Evan, if it isn't already. I heard they were selling it overseas.
But I did hear the german recording, I think, and that was wonderful. And there is soon to be another recording released with Robert Evan, if it isn't already. I heard they were selling it overseas.
#6
Posted: 5/5/06 at 8:00pm
I just want to point out that I think many people here are confusing the concept (with Colm Wilkinson) with the Studio Recording (Anthony Warlow).
#7
English-language, there are four:
Highlights from Jekyll & Hyde (The Original Concept Album with Linda Eder and Colm Wilkinson) (1990, RCA). I have never heard this one
Jekyll & Hyde: The Complete Work (2-DISK CD with Anthony Warlow, Linda Eder and Carolee Carmello. This is the best one) (1994, Atlantic)
Jekyll & Hyde: Original Broadway Cast Recording (The orchestrations are phenomenal but all the best songs have been cut. It's a good one to have though)
Jekyll & Hyde: The Concert (Basically "Resurrection" now available in Korea. If you can import it, good luck. "J&H: Resurrection" will be out some time shortly)
Posted: 5/6/06 at 12:30am
English-language, there are four:
Highlights from Jekyll & Hyde (The Original Concept Album with Linda Eder and Colm Wilkinson) (1990, RCA). I have never heard this one
Jekyll & Hyde: The Complete Work (2-DISK CD with Anthony Warlow, Linda Eder and Carolee Carmello. This is the best one) (1994, Atlantic)
Jekyll & Hyde: Original Broadway Cast Recording (The orchestrations are phenomenal but all the best songs have been cut. It's a good one to have though)
Jekyll & Hyde: The Concert (Basically "Resurrection" now available in Korea. If you can import it, good luck. "J&H: Resurrection" will be out some time shortly)
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#8
Posted: 5/6/06 at 12:32am
Warlow! Warlow! Get that one!
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#9
Posted: 5/6/06 at 12:36am
The Original Broadway Cast Recording is beautiful.
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#10
Posted: 5/6/06 at 9:25am
I prefer the Broadway one.
I just saw a local production of J&H that used almost all the music from the studio recording, and I found it too plodding. They had three songs in a row that had to do with being a prostitute/not wanting to be a prostitute/being a prostitute: "Bring On the Men", "No One Knows Who I Am", "Girls of the Night".
I just saw a local production of J&H that used almost all the music from the studio recording, and I found it too plodding. They had three songs in a row that had to do with being a prostitute/not wanting to be a prostitute/being a prostitute: "Bring On the Men", "No One Knows Who I Am", "Girls of the Night".
#11
Posted: 5/6/06 at 9:36am
I have three, and I definitely suggest Anthony Warlow, Carolee and Linda! Best album out there! They are all so amazing! Its the big 2 disk complete album.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#12
Posted: 5/6/06 at 11:18am
I own the Bway version, but Anthony Warlow's take on "This Is the Moment"....makes me die. I love it so much better than the Bway version with Robert Cuccioli.
No one is alone.
#13
Posted: 5/6/06 at 12:17pm
I love the Colm and Linda version...Its hard to find I think but I see that it is on ebay and cheap!
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#14
Posted: 5/6/06 at 12:18pm
The complete studio recording is the absolute best.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#15
Posted: 5/6/06 at 12:39pm
It is too bad that there is not a recording of the Phil Hall version - (at least, none that I'm aware of) - because it is a FAR superior production, in every way.
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#16
Posted: 5/6/06 at 1:33pm
Obviously the 2 disc studio recording is more complete than the Broadway CD, but then the Broadway cast recording has the updated versions of some of the songs that people will argue are either better or worse. I hope we can all agree though that "Dangerous Game" is in improvement on the Broadway cast recording. in the end the studio CD has "Bring on the Men" and "The Girls of the Night" so, for me, it's the better of the two even though some of the orchestrations and lyrics are better on the Broadway CD. I say buy the 2 disc version, and then if you become a fan, buy the Broadway cas recording as well.
#17
Posted: 5/6/06 at 1:46pm
OBC
Check out the dvd too!
Check out the dvd too!
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#18
Posted: 5/6/06 at 1:50pm
Definitely watch the DVD for the superb vocals and performances by Andrea Rivette and Coleen Sexton!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#19
Posted: 5/6/06 at 2:05pm
One thing I never got was, why don't the characters use English accents? This story is set in England, there are titled characters, etc. The only character in the three times I've seen the show performed who had an accent was Lucy (and of course, it was Cockney).
Also, in the longer version, which uses music from the Warlow CD, the Simon Stride subplot makes no sense. He has a tiny scene where he vows revenge on Jekyll for getting Emma--a good thing would've been for him to sabotage the experiment, and that's why Jekyll can't control when he turns into Hyde. Then of course, Stride would get his comeuppance when Hyde kills him at the end.
Also, in the longer version, which uses music from the Warlow CD, the Simon Stride subplot makes no sense. He has a tiny scene where he vows revenge on Jekyll for getting Emma--a good thing would've been for him to sabotage the experiment, and that's why Jekyll can't control when he turns into Hyde. Then of course, Stride would get his comeuppance when Hyde kills him at the end.
Updated On: 5/6/06 at 02:05 PM
#20
Posted: 5/6/06 at 2:35pm
This is true.
Simon should become a part of the plot. His part could be made bigger, and made into some sort of antagonist. In this show, the antagonist and the protagonist are the same person, which is great, but we could do with some more Stride!
Simon should become a part of the plot. His part could be made bigger, and made into some sort of antagonist. In this show, the antagonist and the protagonist are the same person, which is great, but we could do with some more Stride!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#21
Posted: 5/6/06 at 6:52pm
"One thing I never got was, why don't the characters use English accents? This story is set in England, there are titled characters, etc. The only character in the three times I've seen the show performed who had an accent was Lucy (and of course, it was Cockney)."
For the same reason Les Miz and Phantom don't use french accents, it just isn't nessecary.
For the same reason Les Miz and Phantom don't use french accents, it just isn't nessecary.
#22
Posted: 5/6/06 at 9:43pm
Who's on the "Resurrection" one?
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#23
Posted: 5/7/06 at 12:08am
Rob Evan reprises his role as Jekyll/Hyde on the "Resurrection" cd. Kate Shindle is Lucy Harris and Brandi Burkhardt is Emma Carew. I understand the cd sold very well in Korea during the recent concert tour of the show there. Hopefully, it will be released in the USA in the not too distant future. Rob Evan was a mighty fine J/H on Broadway and his "This Is The Moment" is a big hit at concerts. OT: He does a fantastic "Music of the Night," too. He needs to get back on Broadway. Anyone in the Des Moines area can catch him with the Andrew Lloyd Webber tour there next week.
#24
Posted: 5/7/06 at 12:15am
Stay clear of the DVD, I mean hello it has David Hasselhoff in it! He can't sing the songs! STAY FAR FAR AWAY!
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#25
Not to mention the movie-version, next year, according to IMDB
Maybe that will be the definitive version?
Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:16am
Not to mention the movie-version, next year, according to IMDB
Maybe that will be the definitive version?
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
-South Pacific
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